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The people who legitimately believe this are space aliens in skinsuits.
No, they’re fascists wearing a giant neon sign that says:
⭐✨FASCIST✨⭐
Look its the same thing. The good space aliens don’t wear human skin suits.
I can barely even understand how anyone could think PBS is propaganda.
None of these chuds have ever watched a minute of PBS in their adult lives.
Its a mistake to believe that this is an irrational or ignorant decision. These guys KNOW what the message of PBS is and there is a reason they don’t want it to get to kids. They are making child soldiers and they don’t want people giving them inconvenient values.
You guys are telling jokes while the other side is building an army. Maybe start taking this shit seriously.
100%. American liberals really do think this is just more of the same old Bush-era GOP misbehavior and are responding to it as such.
The thing is, if you’re an American and you know how hard it is to simply vote out fascism, and if you understand how close America’s empire is to the brink of disaster, you’re either running or, lacking the means, mentally preparing yourself for a struggle to survive.
I pulled up stakes and left, but I still have to keep my sense of humour to stay sane.
BIG lol at anyone who thinks voting is the way to fix this.
lol. Everyone knows the only way to fix this is to troll liberals on Lemmy. lol.
Yeah, alright. Big lol at anyone who thinks knowing history magically makes you safe, while we’re at it.
It’s really easy! If you imagine that a black person and a white person could never be friends or spend positive time together, and then you saw a show that had them together, you might conclude the show is trying to convince you something is okay that you know is not. Propaganda.
If you imagine that a gay person is inherently wrong, and that bad things deserve to happen to them as punishment for their choices, and then you watch a show where a gay person is happy and normal and respected, you might conclude the show is trying to push an idea on you that you already know isn’t right. Propaganda.
It’s sad, and dangerous, but it’s not complicated.
Thank you so much for commenting this. It’s so annoying to see both the original screenshot and so many exchanges in here either playing dumb or actually being dumb about WHY they see PBS as propaganda. As always, people are more interested in appearing to preach epic gotcha wins to their own choir, while totally sweeping the real meaning of their opponent’s statement under the rug. It’s not being nice and learning to read that the right takes issue with PBS over, it’s race, gender, and sexuality issues. But rather than respond to them on that more difficult ground, the masses choose to go for pointless low hanging fruit like “lol so you hate kindness???”, and then congratulate the OP for owning the right, meanwhile the right is totally unphased by that completely off-topic mark-missing response. And then we wonder why the right sees us as a bunch of circlejerky bubble-world morons.
Tolerance for others and their inherent traits is basic kindness. So yes, if you are not OK with black/queer people than you hate kindness.
And then we wonder why the right sees us as a bunch of circlejerky bubble-world morons.
Modern western “right wing” are outright fascists. We should not concern ourselves with what they think of us, except if it helps us fight their ideology. You won’t be able to convince them with logical arguments of any quality, because they hold their position not because of logic but because of repeated propaganda that leverages the inherent human fear of unknown and different.
The most realistic way I see of things changing is as follows:
Capitalism will inevitably squeeze those people harder and harder, until they can’t afford groceries and rent, despite millions of immigrants being deported and woke TV programs being banned. At that point they might question their ideology and yearn for change, and the left needs to be ready. If the western left once again squanders its potential and do-nothing neolibs (a-la Biden or Harris) get back in office, you can kiss your civil rights goodbye, because they won’t fix the fundamental issues with the system and the voters will swing to fascists again the next cycle.
What needs to happen is that at least demsocs like Mamdani getting into offices all over the country. If that happens, they might at least do something to fight against capitalism and unlimited extraction of surplus labor, and improve material conditions for people, at least a little bit. If that happens under left’s watch, people will associate the ideology with good material conditions, and will appreciate its other tenets (human rights, equality, tolerance, inclusion) more. Whether this leads to vaguely left-wing rule for a while, a-la FDR, or an actual outright revolution is of course questionable, but it’s the only way forward for the US IMHO.
Y’all need to make a third party that represents the left, because Democrats never will.
Start with local elections and build your rep, you need a genuine left leaning pressure on the politics of your nation - showing that people will show up to vote for real left leaning values is the way.
The DSA should become a party of their own right.
I completely understand your argument and I agree, but I would also say that acceptance of other races, sexualities, nationalities, etc is , at its core, just kindness, and that MAGA generally dislikes kindness toward anyone who isn’t cis, white, and American, or a token minority who agrees with their policies. That’s kind of one of the main problems with MAGA.
They don’t even like kindness for themselves. They like rigid obedience. The instant anyone steps out of line they get beaten into submission or disowned.
Reality has a well known Liberal bias.
Or maybe they did. Seaseme Street might go over the heads of maga voters. And Mr Rodgers messages of inclusion and empathy are far out of their mental grasp.
I can barely even understand how anyone could think PBS is propaganda.
Propaganda, that’s how.
The Reich wing is infuriatingly effective at using projection as both a defensive measure and an assault.
Well, technically, anything that spreads a message or ideal is propaganda. If you think something isn’t propaganda, it’s because you already agree with the message.
It’s just that in this case the message is “Be kind. Science is cool” and only a christofascist would think that is a bad thing to spread.
If I had to slap down some amount of cash I’ll never be able to save to bet on which state would do this shit, it would have been Arkansas. No redeemable qualities in that state. Literal shithole. 50/50 ranking in US, etc etc.
Hey… That’s unfair.
Don’t forget Oklahoma and Missouri (best pronounced misery).
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Meanwhile, Abbott is forcing Turning Point to be in Texas schools in order to groom the next generation of child raping MAGAfreaks
They’re not even afraid to be hypocrites anymore. Someone needs to turn the lights on and make the cockroaches scatter.
So, Mr Rogers, Sesame Street, Nova… were all propaganda?
The letter of the day is F, for Fake Fucking News.
Nova
I know plenty of people who think saying the earth is >10,000 years old is propaganda.
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There was a Nova episode in the 1970s that was dedicated to a crazy rich guy’s hare-brained scheme to mine minerals off of the sea floor.
Then, about thirty years later another Nova episode revealed that the mining scheme from the earlier episode was a CIA cover story to cover up for a top secret claw game operation to lift a sunken Soviet submarine off of the sea floor.
So I guess the first one was fake news.
That book should be the US constitution.
No, you don’t understand. They’re teaching them kids to be GAY. To go in cat boxes and spread their trans, woke, DEI, Marxist, Socialist rainbows. Think of the children! /S
Conservatives are thinking of those children a bit too much, methinks.
Yep. So goes the conflation. If you like science, you have to like all those other things too. Them’s the rules now. Pick a side. *vomit*
I mean, education and kindness are indoctrination against them, but only because they espouse the doctrines of ignorance and hatred
Ah yes Arkansas, the beacon of education. Happy to keep their citizens illiterate and ignorant.
Arkansas ranks 45 out of 51 states in education.
So, let’s say the kid gets up at 6am. PBS listings:
- 6:00 – Pinkalicious and Peterriffic: Gingerbread House; Christmas Tree Trouble: “Pinkalicious” and Peter build a gingerbread house that attracts Sarafina, a holiday fairy
- 6:30 – Curious George: George Digs Worms; Everything Old Is New Again: George’s entry into the world of worm racing faces a giant hurdle when Mr Quint picks up the wrong lunch box; George learns about recycling, and sets out to recycle everything he possibly can.
- 7:00 – Sesame Street: Elmo’s Morning Routine: Elmo and Abby help Crystal the Ball invent a morning routine.
- 7:30 – Milo: Milo the Decorator: Otto is needed elsewhere, so Milo and pals set to work painting Dame Delores’s ballroom.
- 8:00 – Work it Out Wombats: Zadie’s Horrible Haircut; Zadie’s Horrible Haircut; A Day Out With Babby: SUPER anxious about going to the barber, Zadie decides to cut her own hair. To fix this disaster, Zadie needs to face her fear of getting a haircut. When it comes to playdates, Malik discovers that smart devices have their limitations.
Golly such offensive content. The kids might actually learn something on Sesame Street!
All I see is pure unadulterated brainwashing sir. Now if you’ll please leave us all alone we’d like to continue watching Fox.
You’d think that Fox News would at least be trying to take advantage of this by rolling out something like “Fox News Jr.” with angry propaganda for 8 year-olds. But, I guess they’re just happy to see kids forced to watch any for-profit TV channel.
My guess is it’d be some sort of praegeru-kids
Like Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri, Kentucky…
At some point it’s pretty much the whole country. That’s a sad display right there.
No, it’s really just the shit hole confederate states that take more in federal funding than they provide in taxes, and also have the worst education/literacy rates, and highest poverty rates.
“Accuse your opponent of what you are guilty of yourself” as per Goebbels
Deny accountability, reverse victim and offender.
“Accuse your opponent of what you are guilty of yourself" as per every toddler ever
No joke
Elementary school teacher here. 95% of “he hit me” tattles are followed up with, “Only because he hit me first!”
Fascists are uncomplicated because their philosophy is uncomplicated: access to power grants you control.
1/5 kids is hungry in Arkansas.
it used to be 1/6 so they think its getting better.
🤔
When the orange rapist dies these freaks are going to keep dragging this nation down for the remainder of our lives.
The people financing Trump are the puppeteers, they will immediately switch to another puppet.
PBS isn’t perfect, but it’s publicly accountable and transparent—more than most for-profit networks.
The exact reason it has to go. Too much oversight, not enough pandering and way way too much science.
